July pleasure reading

I've been making more use of the Duke library to check out books that have nothing to do with surfactants, emulsions, and polymers which is nice to save some money and also because I just choose books at random from the "New and noteworthy" collection and would read books that I wouldn't normally read.

I've read two books so far this month, both from the Duke library, one called Finny by Justin Kramon and one called If I Loved You I Would Tell You This by Robin Black.  Both were good, but I enjoyed Finny more.  The second one was a collection of short stories, which was cool, but I generally like to read books that are more cohesive.  Anyway, I'm not much for critiquing books really, I just want a way to keep track of what I've read so that when I reach December 31 and look back at the year I'll remember having read these books and maybe a little bit about them.

Right now I also have The Hobbit, a John Grisham book called The Confession, and a third book that I can't remember the name of but appeared to be some sort of thriller-type book checked out for pleasure reading.  I also have about 20 books on polymers, but I try not to think too much about those :-P  I now know where the Surfactant Science Series can be found without having to double check and a few weeks ago someone actually recalled two of my books that I've had for about two years and I was irrationally annoyed (the nerve!!).  How can more than one person want to read about nonionic surfactants?  I just photocopied the important sections of the books before I returned them but I was still contemplating recalling the books as soon as I turned them back in, just to be spiteful.  I wouldn't really do that, I was just so shocked that someone wanted these books!  They recalled two of them!  I think I was more annoyed because this was the week I was leaving and swamped with work I was trying to wrap up before we left and finishing the presentation and data analysis and the last thing I wanted to do was photocopy a book chapter!